Personalized Passion Project

 Yesterday we presented our personalized passion project in our wananga class, we also bring it to the library for the other student to see. As you may know, we started doing out personalized passion project last term and spend most of our wananga class finishing it. While doing the human sized sculpture we experience some problems but got a solution eventually. Since we are making our sculpture using cardboard it's hard for them to balance and they're not standing. After lot's of tries my group finally made it and finish the project. We made a presentation about our project.

Music Reflection

Last term, we did a short performance on the last day of term in music. As group with 3 members two of us sang while I'm playing the piano. The song the performed is "Can't Help Falling In Love" by Elvis Presley. We spend some of our music lesson practicing our performance. Our performance has been recorded by our music teacher, she did this because it was unexpected and we don't have much time if we are gonna do it in front of the class. During and after this performance I noticed that my skill in piano improved a lot and my self confidence when I'm performing. Next year, I don't have any plans to take music because I think I already had a lot of time learning something about it and had fun. Also, next year I would like to focus more on my academic. 

This is our performance: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GmNIR10Rj8blWBThEM90XHpBVxYpkCeS/view?ts=6152390d

ESOL Term 3 Reflection

This term in our ESOL class, we did a lot of different activities. We did some grammar practice, reading, online tests, different types of worksheets, and writing a formal essay. We spend almost half of this term in lockdown so we didn't do much for the whole term. However, there are still some things that I enjoyed for this term in ESOL, I enjoyed doing grammar practices, reading lots of different stories and answering the question about it. I enjoyed all of this because I think it's really helpful to improve my knowledge and my ability to understand the story that I'm reading. But the thing that I enjoyed the most is writing the formal essay as an assessment, I like this because I saw how I get better at my writing and brainstorming. We did a lot of preparation for this essay and I like how my essay turned out. Also, writing this essay makes me proud of myself because I saw that I improved my ways of writing an essay and submitting it in time. Next term, I would like to learn and do something new in this class. However, I still want to do some of these things, it might be boring for some of us but I think it's really helpful. There are some things that I would like to do better next term such as blogging, getting a better score in online tests, and put more effort into my works to get an excellent result. I hope next term will be fun for all of us since it's our last term for this year. 

How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

 Fashion from the 1850-1920 in New Zealand

Women used to wore long dresses, corset and hats. This fashions where based in London and Paris fashion. From 1850's sewing machine and paper dress making were quite popular and the most common way of making clothes. In the late 19th century they promoted practical clothes like Knickerbocker or baggy knee length trousers for women. 

For children, both boys and girls babies used to wear robes. After a couple of years, boys wore Knickerbocker suits, while the girls wore dresses. 

How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped

Who is the main characters?

-  Pearl Button - She's a little girl with blonde hair and really white teeth. She is wearing lots of layer of clothes.

-  Two Maori women - They have a dark skin, fat and dark hair. Their clothes were really different compare to Pearl's fashion. They don't wear any stockings, no footwear and completely opposite to Pearl.

What happened to Pearl?

1 - Pearl is in her front yard playing.

2 - She saw two large women walking down the street carrying a big flaw of basket of ferns. 

3 - They have a simple conversation trying to get to know each other. 

4 - They asked Pearl Button if she's going with them without knowing them. After that, they started walking with Pearl Button and went to their place. They treated Pearl with weird treatment, kissing her hair, her hands or neck. 

5 - After that, they bring Pearl to another place and went to the beach. Pearl had fun spending her time at the beach. 

Personalized Passion Project Reflection

Last week we continue our personalized passion project. We started attaching the different parts of the statue that we are making. We also started the second statue that we are doing, since we are in a large group we assigned people to do different things so it's more easier for us to finish the work. Some of us were cutting the cardboard, some of us were sticking the hair of the statue and some of us were putting the different parts of the body together. We did a lot of work last week because we don't have much time to be able ti finish the work so we need to use our time wisely. We still need to finish a lot of things and put the pieces together. We are more than half way in our work and we only have this week and 3 weeks next term o finish it. This week plan is to finish attaching the hair in the statue and start putting it together.

Personalised Passion Project

In wananga class, we have been doing our personalized passion project. For this project we need to be able to create something that we can share. Me and my friends decided to be in one group to create something, we will be creating a human size statue using sustainable things such as cardboard, newspaper, and other materials. The inspiration that we've choose to used is Japanese sculpture called "Beast King Kabuki". 

For this project we also need to create a driving question about our project. We spend most of our time creating our driving question. Our driving question is "How can we use sustainable materials such as newspaper and cardboard to create life size statue. 

The purpose of this personalized passions project is to help us to express those passions that we have and to be able to try and learn something new and share it with other students. We also need to create a presentation that we can present at the end of our personalized passion project. 

At the moment, we are done measuring the different parts of the body of our statue. We still need to focus attaching those pieces to complete the statue. We are planning to make two statues but for now we are only focusing on doing one because we don't have much time but we will do another one if we finished the first one we are currently working on. 

Music Performance

 1. What instrument are you performing on and what will you perform?

We decided to play piano and sing at the same time. We will be playing "Can't help falling in love" by Elvis Presley. For our performance we'll just going to perform the chorus only. 

 2. Are you doing a solo or a group performance? Explain!

We are doing a group performance. Skyler and Janel will be singing while I play the piano. 

 3. What do you need to work on first?

At the moment, we know what we need to do for our performance. However, we still need to practice to match my piano to their voice. There are some time when the piano sound is late and advance. 

 4. What will be challenging? 

For me it will be challenging to perform in from of the class because this is my first time playing piano and especially we are in a group.